Publishers are looking for blockbusters - all the world loves a megaseller.
I'd never been published when I was young.
There's a word for an author who doesn't give up... published.
I cannot claim to have had a hard time publishing.
I struggled for a long time to get anything published.
I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos.
I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.
The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie.
I read my books aloud before they were published.
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
Most times with vanity projects, publishers don't believe in the work; they just believe in the name.
It's a dream to be in a company of actors.
I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a rounda...
Successful companies will almost always be described in terms of a clear strategy, good organization, strong corporate culture, and customer focus. But whether these things drive company performance, or whether they’re mainly attributions based on ...
Cecelia, as with every look and gesture she let us know, was entirely at ease only in the company of her equals – a company that included, besides herself, only her sister. And of course Cecelia held some secret doubts about herself; you can’t di...
In the deepest, most central place of our being, we don't want to cross God and our not wanting to is the beginning of wisdom.
If you cannot create, then buy a company that can. In particular, the large corporations buy small, personnally owned companies that have made breakthroughs in particular areas. They are buying creativity, though the immediate rush this produces does...
It's not only how much money you make. It's what you do with it that determines your financial condition.
